Extra Benefits

Intro

In addition to use of our Habitat Land, Indoor Range and Outdoor Range facilities, we have a long list of other benefits that come with our memberships ranging from insurance to newsletters to awards to special events and so on. Below is a comprehensive list:

Subscription to Outdoor Canada West magazine that AFGA publishes 6 times a year for distribution to all Alberta Fish and Game Association members,

Access to 320 acres of RDFG owned land,

Access to the club’s Indoor Range for Air Guns, Pistols & Small Calibers,

Access to the club’s Outdoor Range for basic sighting requirements, sidearm training, skills maintenance and such for hinters and the like,

Insurance coverage by Alberta Fish & Game Association to a maximum of $500,000 Insurance policy when participating in club activities such as family camping, canoeing, archery, shooting events, fundraising, Sportsman’s Shows and wildlife Stewardship habitat projects,

Club Safety Training Program,

Special Programs including:

Hand Gun Shooting Clinic

Youth Programs:

Junior Shooters

Cenalta Youth Conservatory

Youth Pheasant Program,

Yearly Member Appreciation Nights (Pig Roast),

Club News posted regularly to the website,

Club Newsletter issued four times a year and available online,

Online Events Calendar,

Earning of Volunteer Credits Towards Next Year’s Range Membership,

Monthly Member Meetings,

Annual Awards Program,

The Outdoor Range Trophies for fish, game and birds are available for each year and winners are eligible to be entered in the AFGA Program for the Provincial Awards,

We are one of the first Fish and Game clubs in Alberta to automate online Membership purchasing. This automation has really helped our club’s membership coordinators with the overall tedious process as well as significantly increased our membership count.

This year, we further enhanced the automated membership process to include:

viewing accumulated volunteer hours (which will automatically translate into a discount for next purchase)

re-printing of membership cards (at any time)

easy printing & reprinting of membership cards

including more information on membership cards

ensuring everyone on a Family Membership gets their own card

ensuring the process with AFGA assigning numbers to new members was streamlined through simple exports matching AFGA’s format precisely

providing simple conversion from regular memberships to family memberships within account – by simply adding dependents

providing a simple method to update member accounts with volunteer credit dollar values that would automatically be deducted in their next purchase online,

designing a database structure that allowed for ease of exports of current information about members such as:

email lists

total sales

lists of members still missing their AFGA nbrs

lists of new and old members

lists of members wanting to help volunteer (and where)

and other ad hoc exports

We’re working on building a strong relationship with a new social network to be officially launched in Jan, 2018. This social network is for Outdoor Adventurists (and associated clubs). It works just like Facebook, but the membership is strictly for Outdoorsmen/women, clubs and businesses. It includes 16 different outdoor sport’s categories, including: hunting, fishing, trapping, wildlife viewing, off roading, motorcycling, bicycling, camping, hiking, climbing, water sports, snow sports, aerial sports, wind/water sports, boating, horseback riding, outdoor court sports, golfing and others.

This social network will give RDFG members who join:

online social tools to:

connect with one another,

share photos/videos/stories,

plan & organize groups,

plan & organize meet-ups,

publish articles to the site newspaper and

basically get better acquainted with one another, the club, and other clubs through these informal connections and planned outings with one another.

Membership there for Clubs and their members is free.

This social network will give our Club:

a great source of Fund Raising that will allow the club to really grow and to help modernize and maintain our facilities through selling business memberships and ads to the site for a 10% commission,

stronger club camaraderie,

tools for organizing events,

tools for recruiting new members, and so on.

Stay tuned on this, as we may be calling upon members in January to sign up and start beta testing this system upon its official launch.

In doing so, it allows us to be closely involved in future design updates and gives the club a fund raising advantage because we’ll receive additional lifelong residual (year after year) commissions due to our participation in this beta test process. Stay tuned!